Protestors demonstrate outside a McDonald's this month in Oakland, Calif. Demonstrations have occurred nationwide, including in metro Detroit, as part of a push to raise the federal minimum wage.

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David Horsey
Tribune Content Agency

In a speech last week, President Barack Obama declared that income inequality is the "defining challenge of our time." Conservatives, however, seem to think talk about the gap between the super rich and everyone else is nothing more than the whining of society's losers.

Obama said that he will push for an increase in the federal minimum wage. Unfortunately, this will be yet another piece of legislation that has about as much chance getting passed in the Republican-controlled House as a bill to ban country music, gun shows and Sunday schools. Still, Obama said he would challenge the GOP to ...